Database Time Spent Waiting

  • From: Jay Hostetter <hostetter.jay@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 09:13:54 -0400

I didn't see this message come through, so my apologies if it is a duplicate
post

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I have a few test databases that are on the same box.  They are reporting
several hundred "Concurrency" alerts in DBA_ALERT_HISTORY each day.  My
first thought is that since the databases are rarely used, some scheduled
jobs are triggering these alerts and I probably need to tweak the
thresholds.  The customer does not have Grid control or the database console
setup for these databases.  A sample of recent records in dba_alert_history
is shown below.  Can somebody explain to me why the alert is triggered for
this metric when all of my warning_values for "Database Time Spent Waiting
(%) are set to 30 (in DBA_THRESHOLDS)?  And why do I see so many alerts for
a value of 0?  It would make sense to see a 0 when the alert is cleared, but
I don't understand why I see so many zeros in a row.

Thank you,
Jay

REASON
TO_CHAR(TIME_SUG METRIC_VALUE
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Metrics "Database Time Spent Waiting (%)" is at 0 for event class
"Concurrency"            04-22-2010 13:49            0
Metrics "Database Time Spent Waiting (%)" is at 0 for event class
"Concurrency"            04-22-2010 13:38            0
Metrics "Database Time Spent Waiting (%)" is at 0 for event class
"Concurrency"            04-22-2010 13:34            0
Metrics "Database Time Spent Waiting (%)" is at 0 for event class
"Concurrency"            04-22-2010 13:16            0
Metrics "Database Time Spent Waiting (%)" is at 0 for event class
"Concurrency"            04-22-2010 13:13            0
Metrics "Database Time Spent Waiting (%)" is at 0 for event class
"Concurrency"            04-22-2010 13:11            0
Metrics "Database Time Spent Waiting (%)" is at 28.40031 for event class
"Concurrency"     04-22-2010 13:05   28.4003091

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